What to Read on the Beach This Summer

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Scientific American

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

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Scientific American has been reading, reviewing and recommending books for more than 100 years. These days Brianne Kane, our resident reader, is in charge of organizing our book recommendation lists to help science-minded people find the perfect read, including novels. She joins fellow book nerd Rachel Feltman to talk about the nonfiction and fiction books she’s recommending this summer—and gives a preview of our end-of-year lists. Recommended reading: See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading in June https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-nonfiction-books-scientific-american-recommended-in-june/ Your Garbage Has a ‘Wild Afterlife’ on the International Black Market https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/waste-wars-tracks-the-wild-afterlife-of-garbage-on-an-international-black/ Get more great summer reads every week: sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American. E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.1	You might not know this, but Scientific American is a great place to go for book recommendations,
1:00.0	and not just for nonfiction science titles either.
1:06.0	Our team is packed with voracious readers, and we publish lists of our favorites at the end of every year.
1:11.5	You can also get book recommendations every Friday in our daily newsletter, Today in Science.
1:18.5	Now that summer is in full swing, we thought it would be fun to chat about some of our favorite beach reads for the year.
1:26.9	Today, I'm joined by Bree Kane, Scientific Americans resident reader, to go through some of her top picks for summer reading across a whole range of genres. Bree, thanks so much for
1:29.3	coming on to chat with us. Would you start by just telling our listeners a little bit about
1:34.0	what you do at Siam and, of course, how it involves books? Well, my day job is helping our
1:40.6	contractors, writers, and illustrators with their contracts and their invoices.
1:45.5	But as everyone in the office knows, I'm constantly bullying people into reading more books and
1:50.0	shoving books in their hands.
1:51.9	Yes.
1:52.5	And we love it.
1:53.5	We love that you do that.
1:56.6	Some of our listeners who read Scientific American might already know that you can get awesome book recommendations from there and not just nonfiction science books.
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